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Patented July 13, 1909.

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UNITED STA'IES PATENT OFFICE..

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHIC CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TYPOGRAPHIC FORM.

Application led July 16, 1901, Serial No. 68,454. Renewed November 22, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS II. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typographie Forms, of which the following is a speciiication.

This invention relates to the manufacture of compound blanks adapted for the production of typographie forms, andl to a typographie form, embodying a plurality of lines of types, made from a blank of this character.

The features of this invention are embodied in a plurality of associated blanks (or typebars made therefrom), which are so united one to the other that although the several blanks are capable of being separated one from another at the type-carrying portion thereof to facilitate the production of the types, yet they form a structure whose parts are integrally connected.

In the drawing accompanying the present specification, Figure 1 is an elevational view of a set of associated blanks embodying the features of the resent invention, looking in the direction of ength ofthe blanks. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 re resents the separation of the companion b anks and bars from that blank upon which t es are to be formed, this isolation of each b ank in succession being made for the purpose of facilitating the type-making operation; and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the partly completed form in the position of the parts indicated in Fig. 3.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

In carrying my present invention into practice the several members upon which the several lilies of types are to be formed may be embodied in a single piece having a height corres ending to the type-height of the form, or suc piece may be of a less height, since the present improvements relate more especially to the construction of the type-carrying portions of a typographie form which includes in its construction a number of lines of types of a composition.

In the production of a compound or formblank of the character embraced in the present invention, I may utilize a plate of a propriate material having the desired thic ess 5 and whose Width corresponds to the uniform Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1909.

Serial No. 403,338.

length of the respective lines of types to be made. The plate has a length such as desired or convenient; for instance, its length may equal the length, more or less, of the column of matter to be composed. The individual blanks, each designated in a general way by 10, are shown as set oil from cach other by any appropriate means, as, for instance, by eross-slotting the plate, and each blank having a bevel, see 10, along each side on its upper edge in order to produce the proper spacing between the successive lines, since, in the present typographie form, when the form is completed, contiguous typebars are in contact with each other.

If the assemblage of blanks are made from a plate in the manner described, I preferably carry the plane of division between each pair of successive blanks some distance downwardly into the plate in order that each blank may be separated from its fellows, thus allowing the separation of the blanks along the planes of division and thereby permitting the various operations concerned in the type-making process to be carried out with facility free from the interference of a blank or blanks at the side or sides. Ordinai-ily, these planes of division will be carried almost, but not quite, through the plate, thus leaving the entire series of blanks integrally connected with each other by a bottom portion, designated by 11 in Figs. l and 3.

The type-making operations may be of any desired and appropriate character to result in the production upon the individual blanks of the proper lines of types. Each type-blank is, in the present case, shown as provided with a recessed portion 10 in cach of its side faces, thus decreasing the arca of contact between blank and blank and con- 'fining the contacting portions to the upper and lower parts of each blank.

Instead of producing a compound blank in the manner above set forth-that is, by suitably dividing a continuous plate by appropriate divisional planes, which do not extend quite through the plate-the formblank may be made by assembling a series of properly made and individual typebarblanks and connecting them in any suitable manner with a base portion to produce a Virtually integral structure analogous in all respects to that resulting from dividing a plate, as described.

Fig. 3 represents, in a conventional way, the bending of the structure, for instance, at the type-making point of a typebar-machine so as to separate the other blanks and typebars 5 from the blank being operated upon, leaving the latter isolated and permitting the various type-making operations to be carried out free from interference or obstruction by reason of the too close proximity of bars or blanks at the sides.

Having described my invention, l claim- 1. A typographie form blank embodying a plurality of individual type-high line-blanks integrally eonneeted at their bases and wholly separated from each other from their bases outward, whereby the type formable portions of the line-blanks contiguous to a given line-blank may be bodily drawn aside from the given line-blank and the type formable portion of the latter isolated.

2. A typographie form-blank embodying a plurality of individual type-high line-blanks integrally connected at their bases and wholly separated from each other from their bases outward by planes of division extending nearly but not quite through the strueture, whereby the type formable portions of the line-blanks contiguous to a given lineblank may be bodily drawn aside from the given line-blank and the type formable portion of the latter isolated.

3. A typographie form-blank embodying a plurality of individual type-high line-blanks integrally connected at their bases and wholly separated from cach other from their bases outward, whereby the type formable portions of the line-blanks contiguous to a given line-blank may be bodily drawn aside from the given line-blank and the type formn able portion of the latter isolated, said lineblanks having depressions on their adjacent faces.

4. A typographie form embodying a plurality of individual type-high type lines integrally connected together at their bases and wholly separated from each other from their bases outward by planes of division extending nearly but not quite through the structure.

5. A typographie form embodying a plurality of individual type-high type lines integrally connected together at their bases and wholly separated from each other from their bases outward by planes of division eX- tending nearly but not quite through the structure, said type lines having depressions on their adjacent faces.

6. A typographie form embodying a plurality of individual type-high type lines integrally connected together at their bases and wholly separated from each other from their bases outward.

7. A typographie form embodying a plurality of type-high line-blanks integrally eonsenses from each other outwardly, eaeh of said lineblanks having a groove in one side thereof said groove extending throughout the length thereof.

8. A typ ographieal form embodying a plurality of type-bar blanks integrally united one to the other said typebar blanks being a connected structure and also capable of separation one from another at the type-carrying portion.

9. A compound form-blank comprising a series of individual typebar blanks assembled together and means connecting the bases of the blanks integrally together.

10. A form-blank comprising a plurality of assembled type high line-blanks integrally eonneeted together at their bases.

11. A typographie form embodying a series of type-high typebars integrally connected together at their bases and having contacting ribs adjacent to their faces and adjacent to their bases.

12. A typographie form embodying a series of typ e-high typ ebars, means integrally connecting these together at their bases, and separating chambers midward of their heads and bases.

13. A typographie form embodying a plurality of individual type-high line-blanks integrally eonneeted at their bases and wholly separated one from another from their bases outward, these having chambers or channels in their side faces, forming contacting ribs at the head portions and the base portions of the blanks.

14. A typographie form embodying a series of type-high typebars integrally conneeted together at their bases and having contacting ribs adjacent to their faces.

15. A typographie form embodying a series of type high typ eb ars, means integrally connecting these together at their bases, and separating recesses in the sides of the typebars midward of their heads and said connecting means.

16. A typ ographic form embodying a plurality of typebars integrally united one to the other and forming a connected structure said typebars being capable of separation one from another at the type-carrying portion.

17. A compound typographie form comprising a series of individual typebars assembled together and means connecting the bases of the typebars integrally together.

18. A typographie form comprising a plurality of assembled type high typebars integrally connected together at their bases.

19. A typographie form embodying a series of typebars integrally connected to gether at their bases and having contacting ribs adjacent to their faces and adjacent to their bases.

20. A typographie form embodying a series of typebars, means integrally eonneetnected at their bases and wholly separated i ing these together at their bases, and separating` chambers midWard of their heads and bases.

2l. A typogra hic form embodying a plurality of indivi( ual line-blanks integrally connected at their bases and Wholly separated one from another from their bases out- Ward, these line blanks having chambers or channels in their side faces, forming contacting ribs at the head portions and the base 10 portions of the blanks.

22. A typographie form embodying a plurality of' individual line-blanks integrally connected at their bases and Wholly separated one from another from their bases outward, these line blanks having chambers or channels in their side faces, forming contacting ribs at the head portions.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

Vitnesses:

FRED. J. DOLE, C. E. Voss. 

